Unit 3 1945 - Present

The USSR's response to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was to create the

One reason Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Fidel Castro rose to power was that these leaders

A strong nation seeks to dominate other regions politically, socially, and economically

In what way were Korea and Germany similar after World War II?

Which US foreign policy was used to maintain the independence of Greece and Turkey after WWII?

A similarity between Gorbachev’s perestroika and Deng's Four Modernizations is that each

Nations such as Hungary, that were dominated by the Soviet Union after WWII, were called

What was one social change Mao Zedong instituted in China after 1949?

Which statement describes one major aspect of a command economy?

Ghana gains independence from Great Britain; Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first prime minister

From the perspective of the North Vietnamese, the war in Vietnam was a fight between

One reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall was to

What failed policy did Deng initiate to reduce the effects of overpopulation?

French Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and Communist Revolution in China all

The primary goal of the Palestine Liberation Organization (plo) has been to

The political climate of the Cold War caused the world’s two superpowers to

Type of government established by Ayatollah khomeini as a result of the Iranian Revolution

Which type of warfare did Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Ho Chi Minh engage in?

One way in which ho chi minh, Fidel Castro, and Kim Jong Il are similar is that each

year-long journey made by Mao and the Communists followers in 1934 to escape the Nationalists

The purpose of the Marshall Plan after World War II was to

One reason the United States and other Western powers fought the Persian gulf war was to

Which was a major result of the Vietnam War?

Which leader used civil disobedience in a struggle to end colonial rule in India?

Sharpeville, Amritsar, Bloody Sunday & Tiananmen Square are all associated with

Which statement best expresses a major idea of pan-africanism?

Which Chinese leader led the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution?

In which region are OPEC most member-nations located?

India's decision to support neither the US nor the USSR during the Cold War

Use of the term Iron Curtain is meant to symbolize and highlight differences in

Which factor was a major consideration at the time India was being partitioned?

The purpose of both the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan was to

Hungarian Revolution(1956), Prague Spring(1968) & Solidarity in Poland(1979) exemplify

During the Great Leap Forward, Chinese peasants were forced to

economic system in which price is set by the laws of supply and demand

Imaginary line that divided Western Europe from Eastern Europe after World War II

One similarity in the actions of Ho Chi Minh and Jomo Kenyatta was that both leaders

type of economic system used by both Stalin and Mao to accelerate economic growth

Armenian Massacre, "killing fields" of Khmer Rouge, & Saddam Hussein's attacks on Kurds are all

After WWII, a reason the Soviet Union established satellite nations in Eastern Europe was to

In the 1950s, what was the status of most countries in Eastern Europe?

Oil-producing states formed OPEC in order to

Border conflicts between India and Pakistan have most often occurred in

Which goal did Joseph Stalin establish for the Soviet Union?

The South African government’s policy of racial separation between 1948 and 1994 was called

The fall of the Berlin Wall was followed by

Robespierre, Stalin, Mao, & Saddam Hussein are similar in that they leaders all

The US & USSR avoided direct military conflict during the Cold War because of

One way in which Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Nelson Mandela are similar is that each

Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic republic (theocracy)